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While I would not expect something on the same scale to occur in the UK, and compared to China the authorities would be quicker to react to a health scare, smaller scale incidents could still easily occur here. The Trading Standards system is a real mess, and currently there are many cases of products that do not meet EU regulations being allowed to continue to be sold (including cases known by Trading Standards) - although they may not be a 'health risk', there is still the issue of the rules may exist but they are not properly enforced.

This January saw a vegan phenomenon as over 20,000 people signed up to veganuary the campaign to encourage people to try vegan diets.

Whilst VegfestUK continues to see record numbers of visitors to VegfestUK events ( over 10,000 to Brighton centre and London Olympia ) with an impressive number of visitors to the very first vegfest in Scotland at the SECC in Glasgow there still remains a dilemma.

The statistics are back for vegfestUK Glasgow and whilst the overall numbers were impressive disappointingly only 8% were meat eaters.

Campaigners are quick to point out that simply replacing meat with cheese will not make the world a healthier more sustainable more ethical place so it's important to persuade vegetarians to go vegan.

However if many more meat eaters don't quickly switch onto a wholefood plant based diet chronic health diseases will continue to rise the planet is in dire jeopardy we will run out of water and there is not enough land to waste food feeding it to farm an…